Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Youth, social control, and surveillance : Youth experiences of surveillance: a cross-national analysis / Martin Ruck ... [et al.] -- From the outside looking in: young people's perceptions of risk and danger in an east London borough / Simon Hallsworth and Janet Ransom -- Part 2. Street youth, homelessness, and displacement : Living free: nomadic traveling among homeless street youth / Marni Finkelstein, Richard Curtis, and Barry Spunt -- Street youth in New York City and Säao Paulo: deconstructing the striking differences, global similarities, and local specificities / Benedito Rodrigues Dos Santos -- Searching for home: Russian street youth and the criminal community / Svetlana Stephenson -- Part 3. Gangs and street cultures in the globalized city : Social control and street gangs in Los Angeles / James Diego Vigil -- Youth subcultures, resistance, and the street organization in late modern New York / David C. Brotherton -- Children of the land, fruit of the ghetto / Ana Daza ... [et al.] -- Victimization, resistance, and violence: exploring the links between girls in gangs / Dana M. Nurge and Michael Shively -- Part 4. Ethnic envy: how teens construct whiteness in globalized America / Randy Blazak -- An extreme response to globalization: the case of racist skinhead youth / Pete Simi and Barbara Brents -- Columbine: the school shooting as a postmodern phenomenon / Ralph W. Larkin -- 'Cause fightin' is just fightin': Caucasian youth, violence and social exclusion in a globalized age / Michael Flynn -- Part 5. Innovative interventions and youth in crises : Integrating interventions: outreach and research among street youth in the Rockies / Jean Scandlyn, Suzanne Discenza, and James van Leeuwen -- Youth force in the South Bronx / Barry Checkoway, Lisa Figueroa, and Katie Richards-Schuster -- Motivating and supporting activist youth: a view from nonformal stetting / Leonisa Ardizzone -- Appendix: Agents of change responding to violence and exclusion / Donna Decesare.